here comes another surprise from the Russians, Khibini systeThe Donald Cook incident The system was fully revealed and seen in action in the beginning of the 2014 in the middle of the Crimean crisis. The US navy has sent its AEGIS destroyer Donald Cook to demonstrate its readiness in the Black Sea. It was predicted that the ship will remain there for some time and oversee the happenings on the Crimean peninsula. Still, a few days since it came there, a single SU-24 came and demonstrated the attack on the vessel. This cat and mouse game was pretty regular during the Cold War era, but in the last 20 years there were just a few incidents of this sort. The aftermath was pretty unexpected. The Donald Cook retreated to the nearby Turkish harbour and left the Black Sea much before it was planned. The Russian media reported that the ship was completely unable to get a lock-on the airplane and the entire ordeal took over an hour. For such a long period the Su-24 simulated 12 attacks on the ship. The reports say that over 20 members of the ship’s crew filed the decommission request. The US side firmly discarded such allegations but the fact is that something unexpected happened.m.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 04:55:16 +0000
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